With many of the smaller details beginning to fall into place, plans are progressing for the new University Center, which is slated for completion in the summer of 2009. The latest developments include a tentative layout of the interior areas and distribution of space to the various groups that will occupy the building.
The new Center will span approximately 90,000 square feet and occupy the location where Prince Hall currently stands. It will be home to myriad groups and multi-purpose spaces. Jill Carnaghi, assistant vice chancellor for students, described three of the spatial zones in the plans for the new building.
"The western [zone] on the first and second floor is Campus Life: it will be student groups, Student Union, student programming groups, community service, the Rodriguez program, and Greek Life…the middle part is a lot of common area where students can lounge, hang out, eat, and then the southeast pod is the Career Center," said Carnaghi.
David Ross, Freshman Class Council president, was enthusiastic about the plans and felt that the Student Union (SU) space in the new Center will be an improvement over their current space.
"I like [the new space that Student Union will receive] because it will be easy to organize, especially when planning events," said Ross. "It will be better when everything is consolidated."
Ross identified problems with the current setup in which class council executives keep their files and information in their own rooms because there is no central office. In the current setup, only SU's executive officers have their own offices.
The University Center's third floor will consist of student media groups, including Student Life, WUTV and KWUR, as well as facilities for the Arts & Sciences graduate school.
Although plans for the exact location of facilities for graduate students within the new Center are tentative, according to James McLeod, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, accommodating undergraduate and graduate students in the same building makes sense.
"We want the University Center to be welcoming to all of our students - undergraduates and graduates," said McLeod. "We want faculty and staff to be comfortable coming in and using the space, relaxing there, eating there, meeting there… Undergraduates have a special relationship with campus, which is different [from that of graduate students]. They [undergraduates] live on campus, and this is their home, and we recognize that. But the University Center should be for everyone."
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